Defends the Gospel of Jesus Christ and confessional Reformed Anglicanism. The term "Reformed" refers to the five solas of the Reformation and the five points of Calvinism. The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal constitute the Anglican Formularies, the doctrinal standards of Anglicanism. The Lambeth Articles 1595 and Irish Articles 1615 are Reformed confessions. Isa 1:18,Rom 12:1, 2

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In God's providence my doctrine has changed from Pentecostal Arminianism to Calvinism and Reformed Anglicanism. My Reformed standards are the Anglican Formularies (39 Articles of Religion, 1662 BCP, the Homilies), with the Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity. Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, KY, 1995, M.Div. Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, 1991, B.A., Cum Laude. [Nota Bene: All e-mails to me are considered in the public domain. I reserve the right to post them on the blog. Anonymous comments may or may not be posted at the discretion of the blog owner.]
Anglo-Catholicism and Arminianism are heresies.
I view Amyraldianism as a departure from Reformed theology and I disagree with the three points of common grace and the "gracious offer". I do post or link to sites that disagree with my views at times and having those sites on my blog does not constitute an endorsement of everything said on those sites. I generally endorse the presuppositional apologetics of Gordon H. Clark.
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The burning of Tharchbishop of Cant. D. Tho. Cranmer in the town dich at Oxford, with his hand first thrust into the fyre, wherwith he subscribed before. [Click on the picture to see Cranmer's last words.]

Collect of the Day

ALMIGHTY God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

The following article was originally published in Calvin Theological Journal, the official journal of Calvin Seminary. Calvin Seminary is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church. The article was written by John Bolt. The connection between Professor Ralph Janssen and higher criticism and his resulting view that theistic evolution was an option is clearly shown in this article:

The 1924 synod of the Christian Reformed Church,
meeting in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from June 18 to July 8, was one
of the defining moments in the denomination's history. Two years
after another CRC synod had deposed Calvin Seminary Professor
Ralph Janssen for his allegedly higher-critical approach to Scripture,
the 1924 synod affirmed the doctrine that had been at the heart
of Janssen's defense, the doctrine of common grace.1 Now,
seventy-five years later, time and distance may enable us to provide
a self-critical retrospective on this decision that led to a tragic
church division. This article will provide a summary of the synodical
decision as well as a brief evaluation of the church orderly issues
in l'affaire Hoeksema.2 We will
consider the context of the common grace discussion as it arises
out of the Janssen case, the events leading up to the synodical
decision, the course of events at the synod, and its aftermath.
This will be concluded with a few evaluative comments.